The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 5 May 1908

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)
  • 16 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1908. NO. 6,282
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  • 175 1 Two of the Indian bomb-thrawen have beeu arrested, aud one conrui'iel HEcide. The police in Calcatt I have captured quantities of explosives—»*•_'• The murder of Ifr Pjotl II cc idl in 'li» Blue Nile district of E*ypt b \m been followed by an attack on Q rein
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  • 1160 1 The tim ii aaea i iu Eoc -«m bh on !ti Ban i 1; Boglacd the I krtali I'ke, fr< i iofi m unteer C* rps. The limik -I v > weak on«-. bee m I bey i <Te irrc j oa] were by i m need the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 301 1 MILK. SOLD EVERYWHERE. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD. No 1 Dock xo. a dock. I^ r rL h u Length inside > >75 rt Width ot entrance, top 95 it bott Width of entrance, top C0.5 ft bott. rt 45 8 rt ater on block- J7 5 ft Water on
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    • 101 1 Entertainments. ALHAMBRA TO-NIGHT. Huge Success. THE Up=to=Date Play House in the East. MORAL INSTRUCTIVE AMUSING SCIENTIFIC. TWICE NIGHTLY, 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. L. F. WILLIS, Manager. CHILDREN'S CONCERT. VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL Friday, May Bth, 5-30 p.m. Heads of Schools and Parents please note. SINGAPORE TOWN BAND. 47, WATERLOO STREET. Brass
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    • 323 1 En t ertainm en ts. TEUTONIA CLUB. Commencing Monday May 11th. Maurice E. Bandmann PBESENTS THE WONDERFUL. GORRIGK FAMILY OF ENTERTAINERS. Miss ALICE COREICK. The New Zealand Patti. Mr. Chris. Young, Society Entertainer and Humorous Sketch Artist. MISS RUBY CORRICK, Champion Lady Cornet Soloist, Vocalist and Dancer. PROFESSOR CORRICK, Violinist,
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    • 61 1 TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. Maurice Bandmann presents the Cornell Family at Teutonia Club commencing May 11th—Page 1. Kenilworth to let. page 7. And a compound bouse page 1. Vessels advertised on the berth the Voronej. the Koningen Wilhelmina, and the [ndien—Page 7. Bankruptcy notice re G. D. Mclntyte Page 2. Notice re
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 316 1 THE WEEK. Tuesday, stli High Water.—o^o a., 1 49 p Asai/e.- Open. Wednesday. Oth i High Water:—l 2a, 2.34p Thuesdav, 7th High Water.—1.37 a., 3 25 p. P O Mail Homeward due. Dalhousie Ch., 8.30 p Philharmonic Orchestra practice, 8.30 p. Friday, May Btfa High Water.—2.l7 a., 4.37 p P
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  • 279 2 Home Cohtra ra Rsssbvkd Home 5 The contrail D the British and AtnerieaD methods of treating h >me industries is aptly shown bj fcwo state ante sp- a two recent issues of the Shipping They were <mot.d below: Ihi Bxn 9B Way. March -7 T:.-r- arrived la Um
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  • 167 2 April 82. A gruesome fatality is reported from Dindignl. \n elephant a tusker belonging to the Balni temple had 1 b usual been r to assist at the an- Chitrai to stival. On Monday last, when I had come to a close, the mahout
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 794 2 A BRASIER 15 H.P. DOUBLE PHAETON HAS ARRIVED. Long chassis, Model 1908, 4 cylinders with all the latest Brasier Patents. Reliable Strong— Unwast able Beautiful and Fashionable Body of the highest comfort with side entrance and the new patent sliding seats Grande garosserie de Luxe (KING OF BELGIUM STYLE.) The
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    • 539 2 Hftvertfaemcnts. NOTIGES. ESHAR.AT KHAN <& Co., TURF COMMISSION AGENT, 34* Bras Basah Road. ESHARAT KHAN HAS OPENED A book on the forthcoming Singapore May Meeting, 12, 14 16th. and offers good terms to clients. Double Events on 3 4 ft r> and 4 5 from 1000 to 50 and Treble
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    • 356 2 Hbverttsemcntt,. NOTICES. MADAME FAMBON, LADY DENTIST. High Class Work Moderate Price. No. 215, Orchard Road. Nov 21 u.c JAVANESE COOLIES. Suitable for Rubber other estates. guaranteed to be Singkehs. are Ripplied on very favorable terms by MORAUX <\: Co. Api a ESHARAT KHAN Co. Cheapest and best Book Binders, Printers,
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    • 507 2 P^vcrttecmcntt, BANKS. Hongkong Shanghai Bulking Corporation. Paid-up Capital 0,000,000 Reskevm Fund Sterling Ream $15,000,000 J Kn/iMk Silver I Reserve 1 3,5 I -^W.OOO Reserve Lia.eiljty of Peopeimtoes COUET OF DIEBCTOES. Kon. Mr. Hbnkt K*hwicK. Chajkhah, B. <"»£;/, Esq.— J >kj A .v. B Qt. llAi.ih En C. K L* n
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  • 939 3 L >u,lon. April 1908. I E, A h »sk ba? fallen over the political Pol vee&fl and ujtks discord has I u unprecedented height over the BBUBg KD, and anxiety and curicsit] have rieci ahaotiai high over Sir HenrV i iiif't r. [WnneuiMu's rather mysterious illne^
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 568 3 THE Singapore Free Press. Morning Daily. To Our Readers. The Singapore Free Press is now a Morning Daily, and is on sale at depots from an early hour each morning (Sunday* excepted). Cash price Ten Cents a copy Subscribers' copies will be delivered at their private residences, (or town offices
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    • 412 3 flbverttsements. Cuvmv Pinih Jinnua) Publication. THE SINGAPORE AND STRAITS DIRECTORYjoR 1908. 911 pp. Royal Bvo., Cloth Price §7-5O per copy; $8-OO Post Free. Publishers FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED. To be had from all Booksellers in Straits Settlements and F.M. S. Japan Coals. THE Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. (MITSUI &CO.) Head Office:
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    • 555 3 Bbvertteemcnto. AuenoNs. MORTGAGEE'S SALE OF LAND. THE V XDEKSIUNED HAS RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION At his Sale Rooms h, 13 Raffle Place On Thursday, the 7th May, 1908 at 2 p.m. All that piece of Freehold Land situate in the district of Roliore being Lot No. 9
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    • 155 3 EAGLE FOR ALL HIGH-CLASS WORK. ON THE LIST OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES. IMPORTERS, The Borneo Co., Ltd Singapore Cold Storage Co, Ltd. Near Entrance to Borneo Wharf, Telephone 1026. Sea stocks of all kinds of Frozen Meats etc., can be delivered to shipping at th« Wharves, or
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    • 159 3 /POWELUSX [Balsam* Aniseed) I (COUGHS I FoP Cf*LDS ASTHMA BRONCHITIS^ Sife for Crlarej) AhiTseeO THE CEYLON OBSERVER (Established in Colombo 1834) Circulates throughout the inland ai Oujitm And in Southern h. ;.a. Its Overland Edition circulates extensively in Great E Ireland, as well as amongst person s Ksfem ed in
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  • 21 4 Domestic Occurrences. Birth Young At Euglaml House, Penang, on the 30th ult the wife of Kobcrt Younj, 1 of a tlaughtcr.
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  • 2551 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, May 5, 1908. P.ess the People's riuht maintain, U\a«e(i Viy influence and tmbribed by gain Here patriot Truth h"r pioMou* precepts draw. 1 Religion, L< ■ynity and 'Mm Byebtbodt knows that ia the matter of the Harbour Works the scheme, which was no creation of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 222 4 Caldbeck, Macgregor Co's LIQUEUR WHISKY. KNOWN AS 1 CALDBECKMACGRECOR&CC I S^:- >- w y ktfi|a ri p 0/> In H J Obtainable JCj Vwi V W lit/ 1. w» John Little Co., Ltd. Let Us Come Together you our new stock ol Spring Fashion* We cannot describe or let you
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    • 123 4 PORTRAITS, GROUPS and ENLARGEMENTS. Of the Very Highest Standard of Artistic and Technical Excellence, the production of acknowledged leaders in the profession, possessing the highest skill ani superior experience, ani working in the largest and most completely equipped and up-to-iate Studio of any in the Far East We always welcome
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  • 28 5 Ke'-jived at 10.14 p.m. SHIPBUILDING LOCK-OUT. thousand shipwrights have been looked out on tbc Clyde and other slip. buUdiag centres. Eighty th.Muand workmen will be ultiKdctad. > <
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  • 35 5 Prince WlUmw of Efoeta was married -..-e Qraacl Doehene PkTkma at Tmn£oelo, The fmu hiU-'lt led the couple to the The second con of Um Kiag of Sweden, B hruMfflriq. bom in 1884
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  • 112 5 A New Prophet. Quick Retaliation. fa Assassination. Received '.'-1-J a.m. i .-vp rted from Cairo that Mr >ncrieff, Deputy Inspector of the Blue N".' province has been assassinated [esu The G 'veraor and I I roe mwe started for the scene. Becewed a4 5.' p.m. The local She:k
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  • 50 5 The Unexpected" Again Ree. May 4th, 11 am. The polling fat the ■pproadiiag bye-elec- .it Due m probably take place on Saturday, the 9th in-" Hi Cliuujliill, ipcalrinK it Dundee, yeeternamgt mid that he did not anticianother _--u-ril eleotioa for r tvo ft the unexpected might happen.
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  • 12 5 wh fa II been promotBS the 1 Bof V:<count EL
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  • 85 5 Bv the kind per miss: 0 of Bfajoi !'edle\ ersl yal Weak Kent Regii ni tbe nt under Bfr McKefrej will pui IB :he Children's Concert u Friday attert: 0 from 580 I p.m., and will play 1 gP> ""Raymond" (Ambroise Thomash Sketch "Down S oth (MyddtetonJ T??o
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  • 176 5 V i-.uiu" ii the title of a little Tin: k for begii compiled bv >j r t R&1 iling Estate, and published bj Kellv vv WVi.h, Ltd. ti:v knowledge of Tamil Gr- md aavs thai the words of Um vulgar, M but which baa earned me a l
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  • 49 5 Mozuff erpore Miscreants arrested More in Calcutta. Kiceived at 5,5 p.m. Two of the Mozofierpore bomb-thrower have been arrested. >ne rabaaqoeatlj committed suicide. The police at Ciloatta have raided two places and discovered large tjuantities of explosives and half tilled bombs. Thirty arrests have been made.
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  • 37 5 .Received at 5.5 p.m. Thirteen to twenty- five thousand Afghans have crossed the border, the bulk of them in the direction of Lundi Kotal. They attacked the blockhouse there hu 1 vrere repulsed.
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  • 46 5 The French and Italian cars competing in the New Fork- to- Paris race have>rrived at Tokio from Seattle (by steamer.) The American car is thought to have reached the Pacific coast first, but is behindhand through missing its steamer connection to Japan.
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  • 459 5 Bournemouth Fatality. Seven persons have bean killed and eight injured through a runaway electric car at B '.irnem.uth being derailed going down a gradient, and falling twenty feet down a wooded bank. The betting in the London Clubs on the result of the N.W. Manchester election was
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  • 311 5 HANDICAPS. The following ari the hindicips for the first diy's racing at the forthcoming uiaeting. Therfc were 18 entries fjr the Paddock Shakes and the Committee decided to make two races of it, nine horses in eich, on the original conditions and stakes duplicated. One event will
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  • 57 5 Played at Lereh on Saturday 2nd Miv and resulted as follows: If. MacKenzie 37 38 75 3 73 \V. M. Si me 40 3D 7!' scr 7i> D. Campbell 51 56 107 21 83 D. Dine 52 h'l 104 8 96 H. T. Clark retired. \V. M
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  • 76 5 The Straits Union met the Darool Ariftin in a game of soccer on the St Joseph's ground, Old Gad site, on Saturday. The game was interesting. The Straits Union pressed hard, anl before the first half they scored two goals. la the second half they als:> fa i<l the
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  • 55 5 In the <in ill hours of yesterday morning, burglars paid a visit to the residence of Mr Bidwell at Dalvey Rjad and stole property valued at sll'u. The thieves climbed up a drain pipe and got in by a window. A silver watch and two gold chains were
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  • 20 5 The output of rubber (estimated dry from these estates for the month of April is 11,970 pouutU. > <
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  • 296 5 Statement by Students. Meeting at Tokyo. Tokyo, April 27. A meeting of one hundred Cantonese hel^ here passed a resolution that the Peking Government was responsible for the Tatsu Main II incident, and that the boycott now proceeding will be detrimental to the relations of China and Japan.
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  • 804 5 {Via Ceylon.) The Loss of the Gladiator/' Thirty Eight of ihh Crew Missing. PERFECT DISCIPLINE. London, April 26th. Yesterdty's storm in the Channel was the most terrific experienced since 1881. All shipping traffic was suspended. The roll-call last night showed that thirty of the Gladiator's crew were missing.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 261 5 ROBINSON Co. THE CLAUSS AUTOMATIC SAFETY RAZOR. PRICE PWCE COMPLETE IN 0F LEATHER BOX Afi P JjP BUDH SEPARATELr $6.50 Ll 1 ONE PACKET INCLUDING &\*'"y 2U BLADES. @P 12 BLADES. The Clauss Automatic Razor is simplicity itself. It is absolutely a perfect antispetic Razor and is made of the
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  • 904 6 The Penny in the Slot Milkman—Degeneration si Families— Lunar Frost— An Kftectiv. Life Preserver— Lightning and Trees -A WoRD WiUl Baby Headlight Keen Fyt >t Sou;r.auibuli a tu Combination UgM Reodftbool PoisonJiig QtoC 0! QM BMM And really useful of tlu :-y luachint- is that which i- rapi
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 436 6 Hiwertisements. SHIPPING. JAPAN KAIL STEAMSHIP Co., Ltd. A regular FORTNIGHTLY Service is maintained between Japan and Europe by the following NEW TWIN SCREW STEAMERS. Undk» Mail Contracts with the Impbbial Japanese Government. Specially designed for the Company's European Service, lighted throughout by Electricity, provided with excellent accommodation for First Second
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    • 622 6 advertisements, SHIPPING. OCEAN STEAM SHIP Co. Ltd. AND China Mutual Steam Nav. Co. LtdThe Companies' steamers are despatched from Liverpool outwards for the Straits, China and Japan every week, and from Japan homewards for London, Amsterdam and Antwerp every fortnight, and for Genoa, Marseilles and Liverpool monthly. One outward steamer
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    • 596 6 Hbvertisements. SHIPPING P. 6. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. For China Japan Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports, Plymouth and London* Through Bills of Lading issued for China Coast, Persian Gulf, Continental and American Ports. Steamers will leave Singapore oa or about MAIL LINES. Cut-mar d (for China) 1908 Delhi
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    • 530 6 Hsvcrttocmcnto» SHIPPING. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE, HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regular service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and the Straits China and Japan. Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and oner a month for Bremerhaven direct, calling at Penang and Colombo* Taking cargo
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    • 437 6 a&pcrtiacmciua. SHIPPING. NDT Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen INPEKIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE The fast and well-known mail suj&mers o f this Company sail fortnightly fr»>m IrHamburg via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Soathiunpton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naple6, (connection Marseilles Naples, Alexandria and vice versa) Port Sa Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, J: kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki Kube
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  • 501 7 An A;;.\rK 01 he Lr; krals. n, April 10. Lord C inott, ex-Viee- r :nd:a. presiding .it ■MM meeting of t Basingstoke List night, remarked that wd BBMM he had ad- JUlWliinjj in England. B* H*M platform was, he said, ane upon w3
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  • 296 7 Chink-k HBosra"! a:\. f. ro N VBONDS. The "'guest of the even;' i N'.w iterion, was Kcelleney Um Ci. ll tar. ut Li who is the nephew, and eir. of "Iron Chancellor." ong Chang made a picturesque 6gQK ill .andarin sdi and buttons. His Excellency showed himself quite
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  • 41 7 vain fa i- dm II '■■■■< i ng committee of H vmtaa his home in Connecticut a mantel as he Mjad i *,baai i I Ba wiian mahogapy -«i 1_: ;i lu r lM nv t\irs a^ro and_
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  • 349 7 SFHBM oil AND AMBBBOBIS FROM THE SOU IH Sr.AS. The steamer Planet. 488 tons register, has i ju^t completed alterations and fitting out for a whaling cruise in the South Seas, and -ails from Bllesznere Port. Her whaling equipment, in addition to the ordinary bomb guns and
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  • 232 7 G vt Britain and the United States. POSITION OF THE COLONIES RECOGNISED. London, April 9th. The United States Senate s Committee on Foreign Relations baa reported favourably upon the arbitration treaty recently signed by Great Britain and the United States. This ensures the ratification of the treaty. The
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  • 96 7 Dr. Marshall Philip, of Colombo, admitting thai the enteric figures for March for that t iwn were somewhat bigb, has attributed the rise to a certain extent to the very bad houseflj plague experienced in January and Febr; try. This plague as a source Gf infection is
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  • 75 7 (Corrected up to M.y. 4 Sink 4 m/s 2/4 demand 2/3 4 Private credits 3 m/s w 2/4 s j credits 6 m/s M 2/4f France, demand Bank.- 291 Germany, demand 2S6J India, T. T 174A Hongkong, demand 22% Tokohama, demand M 113; Java, demand 139^ Bangkok, demand 64^
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  • 128 7 May 4. Tin buyers $71.62-*-Gambier 7.02', Gambier Cube No. 1 10.50" Gambier Cube No. 2 9.50 Pepper Black (ord'u. S'pore) buyers 11.12] Pepper, "White (fair L.W. 5 p.e.* buyers 19.00 Nutmegs (110 to the lb.).- 19.00 Nutmegs (80 to the lb.) 21.00 Mace (Banda) nom Cloves (A___boi__a) Liberian Coffee
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  • 778 7 SHARE S. MINES. Capful Capital Issae Paid Issued paid op Value op Company. Qu;Utfo«t $300,000 300,000 10 10 Belat Tin Mining Co. Ltd 6 75 $300,000 225,000 10 10 Braang Limited $600,000 600.0C0 10 10 Broses Hydraulic Tin M. Co Ltd 11 £400.000 350,000 1 1 Duff Development Co Ltd
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 165 7 FOR SALE. FOR SALE. :>;. H. P. Motor Cycle, magneto ignition. n. w tyres and powerful brakes, sparking plugs and various spares. Acetylene lamp, footpump and all tools. Very fast and powerful machine. A bargain. $200. Trial solicited. 11. S. A. c o Free Press." M ■>■ 5 ESTATE FOR
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    • 535 7 Hfcvertisemcnts. NOEDDEUTSCHER LLOXD. CHEAP RETURN TICKETS TO COLOMBO On and after April Ist, SPECIAL CHEAP RETURN TICKETS TO COLOMBO and BACK available for THREE MONTHS from date of departure to that of arrival on return will be issued at the following rates From Singapore £18. 14. 0. Ist Saloon 13.
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    • 334 7 TO LET. TO BE LET The comfortable and pleasantly situated residence known as KENILWORTH. Barker Road, near Newton Railway Station. Rent $50. POWELL Co.. Auctioneers. May 5 tts nc. TO ET. A bungalow, close to the town No. 94 Emerald Hill Road, lately occupied by Capt. Rushton. For particulars. Apply
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    • 142 7 TO LET. TO LET FURNISHED. Balmeg at Pasir Panjang. For further Darticulars, apply to D. TURNEE, British Dispensary. Mar 5 u.c TO BE LET. The handsome, commodious, cool, wellbuilt and conveniently situated family 3ence known as No. 9 LLOYD ROAD. Large dining-room with tesselated flooring. Spacious and lofty drawing room,
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    • 126 7 TO LET. TO LET. A newly built bungalow No. 795 East Coast Road sth mile stone near Telok Kurau. Apt y Ali Atubar 16 Aral 28 nc TO BE LET A Newly Erected Bungalow h 'he Sea View nl Compound. Am.!\ bo ME^KK BROS, or at the S. V. Hotel
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  • 2392 8 COUST OF ENQUIRY. In the Marine Court yestei 1 iy morning a a r was held into the recent explouon "U the oil hulk Tancarviiie while in dry dr-ck. The Court was composed as folMrC. ,1 Baundeffl (president), Lieut El A Cator. l Acting Master Attendant, Mr
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  • 226 8 A LUCKY BABA. Seaterday morning, Wee Teng I'ob, a young Chinese baba, engaged a likisha in Brass Basah Koad and proceeded to Kochore Koad. There he alighted and told the puller to wait. He returned iu half an hour, but the puller bad gone. The
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  • 81 8 The homeward mail Devanha left Hongkong at 1 p.m. on Siturday and is due here at -i p.m. on Wednesday, the 6th instant. The outward mail steamer Dolhi left Colombo at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and may be expected to arrive here on Friday morning. The outward and
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  • 157 8 Paris, April i*. The Matin contains the following lt has already been announced that M. Klobukowsky, the French diplomatic agent at Cairo, is about to be appointed Governor-General of Indo- China. He will probably be succeeded at Cairo by M. Leon Geoff ray, Councillor to the French
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 148 8 DE KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Ckdeb Co nth act with m Nkthekla Agents at Singapore, Skips' Agency, late J Daendeis Co 2-3. Collyer ttuay THE UNDERMENTIONED DATE- Of DEIAKTURE ARE ONLY iVFMOHftlfc ks. VALBNTTS Pontiiiiak and Singkawang wft I at to J and ka: I Tandjong Pandan (B Batavia'.' J«va I
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 344 8 VESSELS AT TANJONG PAGAR AND KEPPEL HARBOUR. Wharves and Docks at which different vessels were berthed yesterday. East Wharf Basin -Nil. East Wharf Sec. I— Glenogle. Ceram. Section 1 Sheers Wharf- Nil. Section 2— Soandia. 3 Germania. 4 St. George. 5 Sultan. 6— Patani 7— Persia. B— Nil. 9— La
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    • 603 8 VESSELS IN PORT. Men-of-war Flag and Tons Commanders Arrived I* Tom Fof Whec Mercedes Brit tra. 2925 MoGtaegor Apl 30 Hon^koni» r i'rin. .male Sea Mew Coi. Yacht 500 Coleman Apl 22 Pahang n Sea Belle F.M.S. Yacht 400 Ahmat Mar 4 Port SwvtttakauDi Ship Flag Tons Master Arrived From
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